{"title":"Advance directives.","authors":"D M Torchia","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hospitals and health care professionals nationwide have been busy dealing with a new federal law, the \"Patient Self Determination Act.\" Recent court rulings regarding a patient's right to determine his or her wishes for life-sustaining treatment have many health care professionals responding to new legal and ethical questions from patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":79709,"journal":{"name":"Physician assistant (American Academy of Physician Assistants)","volume":"16 5","pages":"79-80, 83-4, 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1992-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Physician assistant (American Academy of Physician Assistants)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Hospitals and health care professionals nationwide have been busy dealing with a new federal law, the "Patient Self Determination Act." Recent court rulings regarding a patient's right to determine his or her wishes for life-sustaining treatment have many health care professionals responding to new legal and ethical questions from patients.